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Old 04-06-2025, 10:53 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by Rainiorainio View Post
Hello,
I have a Libra H2O (n873) with the "experimental" web browser that can't display pages in complexity beyond a search page, it seems.
Clue is in the "experimental".

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Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
In short, no. Even if you managed to install a full browser, processor and RAM are not good enough for decent web browsing. It's meant for reading books.
Yes.

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You might like an Android eink tablet, like Onyx Boox devices. You can use a browser on those.
However it may not work well due to eink. I have an Android eInk and Kobos and Kindles. The Android eink has Chrome and Firefox from the playstore. Pretty poor. I had a supposed "eink optimised" browser and it was worse.

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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Not disagreeing, but want to point out that the browser is good enough for finding and downloading public domain and other DRM-free books on the fly.
It can be, but I never read PD ebooks (or bought ones) direct from web to kobo, though I've tested it.
Most of the PD ones need: space removed from between paragraphs, smarten punctuation, etc. I do that automatically as I add to Calibre.

Many bought ebooks need line-height and white-space removed from CSS. I have that in the default Calibre converion.

So I even convert epub to epub.

I've now about 6,000+ unread PD on my Kobo and over 50 unread bought books, all loaded via Calibre. So no need to use WiFi on the go and the browser to get an extra ebook.

Also I fix any really messed up ebooks in Calibre. So I never need KOReader either (for all its overrides).

I check cover, title, author, subtitle, series, blurb as a minimum when I add a book to Calibre and set the "Collection" to one of a few dozen major genres.
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